How do you make tools?

[Mögbär]

Am still in the tutorial and the dangerous glade requires tools to be dealt with ... can't find any way to build them. How, please?

[AngelAtheist]

you can click on the tools to select a different item to use for the glade event.

[Cryten]

tools are an advanced product requiring multiple stages to create. You need a resource extractor of either a mine for copper, a dew collector for water slowly or a water pump for water fast. Thankfully these builds are included in your basic buildings.

Then you need to smith the raw resource into bars, copper into copper bars or water into sparkdew bars, several buildings do this:

Grove, Brickyard,Smelter, Alchemist Hut, Grill, Furnace, Stamping Mill).

Finally you need a building to turn the bars into tools: Carpenter, Smithy, Toolshop, Tinkerer, Scribe

[Samseng Yik]

if you are very new to the game, this probably no yet unlock yet,
But unlock very soon enough after 1 or 2 level gain

[Bukkfrig]

For the tutorial you start the level with the Simple Tools already. The glade event requires three slots of various resources, and this part of the tutorial is about teaching you how to choose the cost you want to pay. From memory:

- Simple Tools is a fixed cost, but you already have enough.
- One of the slots can be paid with wood or planks, so you can choose either, and
- the other slot defaults to a resource that you can't get in the tutorial so you have to learn how to choose the other option (Fabric). (The "quest-style" tracking of the order also tells you to do this.)

[zabodmoger]

Tools are good to build but you can't rely on being able to build them every game. Look to get them as a reward in glade events or from filling orders. You can also get them from traders so get your trade post up early on. between those 4 methods you can consistently get tools game to game.

[Bukkfrig]

Read the context people... this was about how to get tools in the tutorial. The answer has been given (you start with them).

[Mögbär]

But if I start with them ... where are they and why does it say they're the only thing I don't have to complete the task?

Edit: Weird, started the game up today and now it says I have the tools, 10/10, but instead one of the people I assigned had gone. In any case, I was able to proceed. Thanks for all the replies!

[BLACK SCIENCE MAN]

I had the same issue. I removed all assigned workers, then assigned them back to it. They then began carrying the simple tools over.